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A one-stop guide to the major movements that have shaped our sense of what cinema is and can be. It covers the founding concepts in Film Studies such as authorship and genre, technological impacts, the rise of digital cinema, social influences and notions of the avant-garde, and cinema as a major art form that reflects and shapes the world.

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Law professor and movie aficionado Anthony Chase sorts out some of the complex and often contradictory notions Americans have about the legal system. He uses movies to investigate many of our deepest beliefs about law and politics.

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Joss Whedon's new adaptation of Shakespeare's classic comedy has already been acclaimed as "a masterpiece". This book features an introduction by Joss, his full screenplay, and a gallery of photos from the set. It also includes an extended interview with the director, discussing his approach to the play, and the production of the film.

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Based on observations of the American Players Theatre production of Shakespeare's Much ado about nothing in the summer of 2014.

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This volume offers readers a comprehensive survey of the varied contributions feminist scholars have been making to film study over the past two decades. In its scope, it presents the range of theoretical, critical, and educational directions open to feminist students of film.

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The Winnipeg of Guy Maddin, the world's foremost cinaste planant, is far from the Winnipeg you'll find in tourist brochures.

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In these analyses of 20th century cinema , Russell reveals an uneasy relationship between death and closure, which she traces to anxieties about identity, gender, and national-cultural myths, and also to the persistence of desire.

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Investigates the drive to create a national theatre as an aspect of the cultural, social and political life of modern Wales. Efforts to establish a National Theatre are discussed as a struggle to define the national identity in a volatile world. This work focuses on how national theatre helps in creation of the modern European Welsh man or woman.

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A world-weary detective, a seductive femme fatale, a mysterious murder - these elements of classic film noir live again in more recent hardboiled detective films from Chinatown to Sin City. But the themes and styles of noir have also spilled over into contemporary films about gangsters, cops and serial killers...

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This book includes academic studies from established scholars and early career researchers, as well as fans of horror cinema. It is written for its own constituency, as well as for journalists, critics, industry specialists and students.

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Brings together ten works that show the excitement and possibilities of the theater. Characterized by fragmenting structure, hypnotic rhythms, kaleidoscopic imagery, unpredictable characters, and lyrical language, these plays resemble puzzles from which the writers are teasing revelations.

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This engaging and original work argues that modern Hollywood was forged in the fires of class struggle and economic inequality

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This anthology of essays studies the form, aesthetics and representations of LGBTQ+ identities in a new subgenre of film and television we call 'New Queer Horror'.

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Explores the history of the many New Waves in cinema, including their forebears such as the German Expressionists, the French New Wave's contemporaries and heirs, such as the Czech New Wave, the British New Wave, and other new waves, such as those of Greece, Hungary, documentary, animation, avant garde and the so-called No Wave filmmakers.

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"A look at the United States' conflicted relationship with news and the media, through the lens of the newsreel."--

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"A look at the United States' conflicted relationship with news and the media, through the lens of the newsreel."--

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David Brown locates jazz music within the broad aesthetic, political, and theoretical upheavals of our time, asserting that modern architecture and urbanism in particular can be strongly influenced and defined by the ways that improvisation is facilitated in jazz.

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The first illustrated monograph on writer, journalist, and director Nora Ephron, the visionary behindWhen Harry Met Sally, Sleepless in Seattle, and You've Got Mail

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